Chilean emergency management officials announced Thursday that they had significantly overestimated the death toll from last weekend’s earthquake, lowering the figure from about 805 people to about 279.  Carmen Fernández, the director of the emergency management agency, known as Onemi, said in an interview that in several badly damaged municipalities, officials had erroneously included the names of people who were missing on the lists of those who had been killed.  “The number of people dead continues to be lamentable,” she said. “But it is significantly lower than those killed in earthquakes like this one that have occurred in other parts of the world.” – New York Times